BDawg,
You have Never read anything anti-Catholic??? Your religion is based on rejecting the Catholic church. You wouldn’t have a religion if it were not for ours!!!
Yes, your church is hard to leave…my husband was bombarded for several years until he simply wrote his letter and told them not to contact him again. He got a letter back saying that they would not contact him “for now”. They have started again even though most know that he is Catholic.
When Catholics “leave” the church, they can return anytime they want. Go to the priest, recieve sacrament of penance, NO re-baptism or re-confirmation.
My Catholic husband, had a really difficult time returning after divorce, he was told his sins were never to be forgiven. Fortunately after 3 years we found a priest who had us pay $150.00 and send some paperwork to a Tribunal, who called and asked some questions and then sent a retired priest to our home. He had to take several smoking breaks but eventually got to the point of forgiving my husband by having him say a bunch of Hail Marys and Glory Bees. Finally after 25 years of being divorced from his first wife he can take communion again and also confession. No, he did not have to be re-baptized, he just had to find the right priest to forgive him. 5 priests told him he had better have someone nearby when he was dying to call a priest for death bed repentance, as that was the only way for him to be forgiven.
Obviously money talks, also, I think the fact that he was molested and raped in the Catholic orphanage when he was a small boy age 6 and throughout his childhood with Catholic foster homes, might have had something to do with them forgiving him. My husband suffered greatly over this and the divorce was not his fault.
What do you think? Do you think this sounds easy to get back in the good graces of the Catholic Church?
I kind of have a tendancy to get carried away like you do when defending my faith. Please don’t feel attacked, I understand you are only trying to tell the truth as you know it. Obviously you have come in contact with some very tenacious LDS. Please show them your post and you will never hear from them again. Your husband should have gone to his Bishop or Stake president and asked to be excommunicated, then they will never contact him.
I know, because I wanted them to contact me and they didn’t for 20 years. I had to go to them when I was ready to come back.
Oh for the Kolob guy, the scripture you reference, says Kolob is a star very near where God is, it does not say He lives there. I am not going to write out all of those verses, as I don’t have time. They are located in the Pearl of Great Price, the book of Abraham and you have told the verses, so you write them out if you want to.
The Pearl of Great Price is one of the four standard works of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, and we believe the book of Abraham is a translation of some ancient records that had come from the catacombs of Egypt and are the writings of Abraham while he was in Egypt, called the Book of Abraham, written by his own hand, upon papyrus. That is all I know personally about Kolob.
Just more fodder for you to joke about, but think how you feel when someone says you worship Mary, or something worse? And you know it is not true and you love God so much, and no one believes you do, they keep telling you that you don’t. It is very painful and frustrating to be told over and over that you are not Christian when you know you are.
So with all of that, I will just say believe in whatever you think will get you to Heaven, be it Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Budha or Mary. I know that my Savior is Jesus Christ, and none other.
BJ
BJ